R.C. Blenis
@hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social
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Poet, nurse, essayist. Paying attention for a living. Writing it down for free. rcblenis.com
"Camera Review," new in The Massachusetts Review. A night on a psych unit, told backward, from the needle to the ducks.
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Psychological safety in clinical teaching is a cognitive prerequisite for clinical reasoning, not a supplement to it. Out today in Journal of Nursing Education: my integrative review on trauma-informed care in undergraduate clinical supervision.
doi.org/10.3928/0148...
#nursing
#trauma
#education
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Operationalizing Trauma-Informed Care in Undergraduate Clinical Supervision: An Integrative Review | Journal of Nursing Education
Background: Traditional models of clinical nursing supervision have relied on hierarchical evaluation structures and corrective approaches to error remediation that may inadvertently impair student le...
https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20260422-01
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Firearms are now the No. 1 cause of death for children in Georgia. The state should be focused on making citizens safer than liberalizing firearms laws.
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Georgia children deserve to grow up without fear of gun violence.
https://www.ajc.com/opinion/2026/04/georgia-children-deserve-to-grow-up-without-fear-of-gun-violence/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-ajc.com&mrfcid=2026042569ea09c1228ff637cef2a12c
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Passing medications, the mind wanders. Or wonders. We know the mechanism. We do not know what the dose does out in a life, in rooms we will never enter. New poem in JAMA today, with a note by Rafael Campo.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#poetry
#MedicalHumanities
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Mechanism of Action
And what if the whole thing works—the small white pilldissolving in the acid of his stomach,finding the blood, crossing into the brainwhere the receptor
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/10.1001/jama.2026.1799
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New poem, "Disaster North," up today at Pulse
@pulsevoice.bsky.social
. Grateful to Paul Gross and the team for the home.
pulsevoices.org/poems/disast...
#poetrysky
#narrativemedicine
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Disaster North - Pulse
Tuesday morning, Marcus holds his shoulders like a question mark. The intake nurse marks the calendar: Thursday—property destruction. She’s never wrong. This is what the body learns: to taste copper b...
https://pulsevoices.org/poems/disaster-north/
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A woman on a subway platform picks her scalp until it bleeds. Everyone steps back. Then her phone rings, and in thirty seconds, everything we thought we knew about her changes. Check out my essay in West Trade Review exploring language, perception, and mental health.
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the boat tilts water finds another seam
#photography
#haiku
#sunset
#mississippi
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Leaves in style.
#smokymountains
#fallcolors
#leavenotrace
#photography
9 months ago
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Neighbors.
#japan
#photography
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The mountain proposes nothing but itself, each hour argues otherwise. The valley holds its breath between the fact that will not speak and speech about it.
#switzerland
#photography
#poetrysky
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The glacier flows. The path climbs. Which is pilgrimage?
#photography
#poetrycommunity
#momentofzen
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Prescribed path. Chosen trajectory.
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Barred owl, autumn branches. Contained, not captured. Freedom is functional repertoire.
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Just got word: my first poem has been accepted by American Journal of Nursing. Grateful to share words from the bedside in a new way.
#healthcare
#narrative
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